ORCHARD Who'S In The Jungle

As with all Orchard Toys products, this jigsaw was brilliant! My kids love it, particularly my preschooler!The picture is colourful and engaging with a variety of animals included. My kids love spotting all the different farmyard animals. The picture is designed so that there is good matching between the pieces.The pieces are good and strong, about 3mm thick and fit together easily.There are some extra points on the back of the box about using the jigsaw for vocabulary development.

Pros:- Colourful pieces, which makes the jigsaw very appealing to little ones- Big jigsaw pieces, easy for little hands to handle- The picture is great for helping toddlers to count (eg. How many animals, count the flowers, etc.)Cons:- Age group, on the box it says 3+ but I believe this is more of a 2+ . Especially for children who like doing jigsaws. I don't think it's quite challenging enough for a 3 year old that does a lot of jigsaws. Of course every child is different, so it all depends on the child you're buying this for.All in all, a very nice jigsaw that will certainly make any child happy.

My kid is number one puzzle fan and the number of puzzle boxes at home is close to uncountable. He doesn't let me to get rid of them even if some pieces get missing. I just ended up buying a duplicate box. Unfortunately, those things are difficult to store and pieces get lost very easily, especially, when there are more than one puzzle in a box. I absolutely hate it, when you buy 3 in one and all pieces come in one sealed bag, so you need a lot of time to sort them out and also need to invent how to store them, so they don't get all mixed up again!!!My kid prefer to play with puzzles on the floor, so all small pieces are all around. The other kid likes to find them, throw them around and chew... So I was looking for a one in a box floor puzzle with at least 20 LARGE (that's for me, as I'm the one tidying up) pieces (too easy if less), sturdy ones, WHICH ARE HARD TO CHEW......., so they would last longer.This puzzle appeared to be exactly what I wanted. The only concern was that this is not usual Peppa or Gruffalo at picture. Well. Success despite NO Peppa!!! Kid absolutely loved it. Was playing with it for 40 minutes the day it arrived, that's an achievement! Puzzle comes in a sturdy box with handle, so easy to store and carry.Such a bright and colourful, very detailed picture. Lovely animals, such a fun look at them and name when the picture is done. Big and chunky pieces "cling" together very well, so you can actually pick it up from the floor and picture will not fall apart easily.I was so impressed with the quality and just the look of this puzzle, that I ordered 3 more orchard jigsaws from amz right away! Honestly, all of them deserve all the stars and the praise. However, after this one I bought more pieces as 25 seemed a bit too easy for us.The reason why I deducted one star and gave it 4 rather than 5, is because the puzzles were not put in any sealed bag to prevent them from missing, just in a box, and the box itself wasn't sealed properly as well. No cellotape or anything, so it's fairly easy to open and therefore some pieces might have got missing. No wonder some people complain here about missing pieces. I thought at first that it might be someone's return, however, the other 3 orchard puzzles arrived in the same condition, not sealed, so it seems like... they're just not sealed.Despite this drawback, both, me and kid are absolutely happy with them.

This is a great jigsaw puzzle. We've had it 3 days and they've put it together so many times already but not damaged yet. My kids are boisterous and usually things already get damaged with this amount of play.I got it for my almost 3 year old who struggles with all the other jigsaws we have at home, which are all 5years plus I think, and even I think they look difficult. She's doing much better with this and I love how the puzzle is well thought out. There is image connection between every adjacent piece. I bought the Melissa a Doug dinosaur wooden puzzle box for my four year old and as a dino crazed boy, he loved it, but it was chipping away on day one and I couldn't see the connection between the pieces. I had to consult the picture yo put it together!! A kids jigsaw! He was still good at it but he's been good at all the more difficult puzzles we have (gifts, hand downs) at home. At that m&d dino one has a high rating but honestly, this is so much superior. I'm not saying don't get the other but....it's just not the same quality or educational value. You need the link between adjacent pieces for there to be real educational value at this age. This jungle one has that.Hoping this will teach her the concept of puzzles soon. She's sharp with other things but doesn't seem to try and understand with this type of activity. But understands and pays attention to lots of other stuff.Both my nearly 3 and 4 and half year old love this. It's done about 4/5 times in one sitting before I put i can put it away.

My lo had Orchard Toys Who's on the Farm bought for her as a present and she was getting to the stage where she could do it almost straight away, so I wanted to get her a different puzzle. I really liked the Orchard Toys product so I chose this one for her. It had slightly more pieces (25 rather than 20) and still had animals on it and was bright and colourful. I like the suggestions they have on the boxes for how you can extend the puzzle to other things - counting the animals, what sounds do the animals make, how many different animals are there, etc. Making it much more of an interactive experience.When the Who's in the Jungle puzzle arrived I didn't check it first (bad mummy) but gave it to her straight away. Mainly because she loved the previous puzzle so much I wanted to see what she'd make of the new one. However, it had a piece missing (the tiger's bottom). She looked at me as if to say "fix it" and when I couldn't, she started looking for a piece that we didn't have.I was quite disappointed as missing pieces had been mentioned in other reviews and I hadn't checked it. But I went to the Orchard Toys website and they have a 'missing piece' and a 'lost piece' service. I put in the details of my puzzle and was really impressed with how quick they were to sort the problem. Within a couple of days my daughter has a complete puzzle to play with and she didn't even seem to notice that the tiger had his bottom back.I know some of the other reviews have mentioned about the pieces only being cardboard and they won't last. But the cardboard is quite thick and both Orchard Toys puzzles we have, stand up to some pretty rough treatment from my daughter. We've had the Who's on the Farm longer, and some of the pieces are looking a little distressed on the corners, but I'm not disappointed because she loves playing with it and she has been more careful with this new puzzle. I will definitely be buying more Orchard Toys products in the future.